We shall use this drone footage here of the boat on the ocean. Keep it subtle, simple and professional.Let’s open up Davinci Resolve and we’re on the Edit tab. Do try and create your own look if your creating something cinematic, Hollywood loves to go through trends such as the “Teal & Blue” look.

Some of it’s subjective but there are industry standards we should use as our basic guideline. Proper colour correction done by professionals can be an art-form. Both good options with “ Neat Video” being the faster of the two. I’ve mentioned the options here for those fortunate enough to have powerful computers to try this out. I did not cover this as my system isn’t fast enough and it falls under the intermediate to advanced category so I’d rather have beginners focusing more on getting colours right before thinking about heavy plug-ins. What we can also do is reduce the amount of video noise we see with Plug-Ins such as “ De Noiser II” or “ Neat Video” both of which are supported for Premiere and Final Cut. Adding an adjustment layer or rectangle mask to create a warm highlight effect is a good compromise though. It will also help if you have a fast computer. Keeping our filters to a minimum (saves massively on render times)Īs stated within the tutorial we can add things like gradient masks to certain parts of our images i.e.Subtle adjustments to not overcomplicate things.Try to keep RGB values as even as we can.

Creating Consistent colour grade across our entire sequence.Correcting any underexposure issues (dark footage).Correcting any overexposure issues as best we can should be a high priority.

What’s this project for? Is it going to be a marketing video for a business? Or a cinematic masterpiece for YouTube? Vimeo?.

Similar colour grade systems are also available for Final Cut Pro and Davinci Resolve 12, so you can apply similar logic from this tutorial to those applications. The tutorial covers the basics within the ’Lumetri Colour System’ now built into Adobe Premiere CC. You would see some great results when using the Zenmuse X5 and X5R Cameras here. This tutorial isn’t limited to those drones as you can carry this knowledge across most drones with similar HD cameras. I’ve put together a tutorial on how to colour grade your DJI Phantom 3 and Inspire X3 Footage. Learn How To Colour Grade Your Drone Footage

Davinci resolve editing drone footage